Re: Help! Filetype $00 problems . . .

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@tcfreenet.org>]

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Rubywand wrote:

>      You mentioned a program named "PC Exchange" which results in resource
> forks being tacked on. Is this the standard Mac<-->PC file transfer utility? 

Starting with MacOS 7.5, yes it was standard.  And, these days you can
download MacOS 7.5.3 for free from Apple and get the 7.5.5 updater.

It's basically a control panel that handles reading/writing of ProDOS
and MS-DOS disks.  Seeing that Mac filetypes consist of a 4 byte creator
and 4 byte filetype, the control panel adds a resource fork on ProDOS
disks to store the Mac filetype.  This does not happen if the creator
type on the Mac is 'pdos'.

> Where does a user get the ProType Mac util which removes the resource forks?

I do seem to remember it being available on ground.  Haven't looked in a 
long while as I already have it sitting and running on my Mac.

Another thing that ProType is handy for is that it also converts binscii
files.

Greg B.

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